Fastening-inserting machine



G. GODDU ET AL FASTENING INSBRIING MACHINE Filed August 29, '1921 3 SheetrSheat 1 Jan. 19 1926. 1,569,920

' G. eooou ET AL FASTENING INSERTING MACHINE Filed August 29, 1921 5 Sheets-Shqet 2 Jan. 19 1926. 1,569,920

'e sooou ET AL FASTENIING INSERTING HAGH INE Filed August 29, 1921 B-Sheets-Sheat s Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE GODDU, OF WINCHESTER, AND FRED L. MACKENZIE, OF BEVERLY, MASSA- CHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATER- SON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FASTENING-INSERTENG MACHINE.

Application filed August 2-9, 1921. Serial No. 496,200.

To all 2071 0112. it may concern:

Be it known that we, Guonsn Gunno and Flinn .L. Macnnnzrn, citizens of the United States, residing at l-Vinchester, in the county of ldiddlesex, and Beverly, in the county of Essex, respectively, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Fastening-Inserting Machines, of which the following description, in con nection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference character on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to shoe machinery, for example to such machines as are used for inserting fast-enings, and has for its ob ject to provide improved mechanism for varying the operation of such machines on the work, as may frequently be rendered necessary or desirable by dissimilarity in character of the separate pieces of work operated upon or of different parts of the same piece of work.

The invention will be hereinafter de scribed, by way of example, as applied to a machine for inserting loose nails of the type disclosed in United States Letters Patent to Fred L. Mackenzie No. 1,262,820, granted April 18, 1918. Inorder to adapt machines of that type for operation on pieces of shoe stock of different thicknesses or on stock which varies in thickness at the points where different nails are inserted,

the racowa s of such machines are former with a plurality of slots adapted to contain nails of different lengths, and means are provided for causing nails of relatively great length to be supplied to the fastening inserting mechanism for insertion into relatively thick stock and for causing nails of less length to be supplied to the fastening inserting mechanism when relatively thin stock is being operated upon. The coi1- ditiens which require change in the length of the nails being inseted also frequently make necessary a change in the position of the gage by which the work is guided in the operation f such machines. For example. when nailing around the edge of the select a shoe, the thickness of the stock through which the nails are driven is frequently greater at the forepar' tlnzn in the shank by reason, for instance, of the interposition of a half sole or tap between the outsole and insole at the forepart. Consequently, it is advisable to insert a longer nail in the forepart than in the shank. The edge of the outsole also frequently projects farther beyond the edge of the insole at the forepart than in the shank, for which reason the edge gage should preferably be moved away from the plane of operationof the fastening inserting mechanism upon the initiation of the insertion of long nails to cause the row of nails to be spaced farther from the edge of the shoe at the forepart than in. the shank.

It is, accordingly, an object of the invention to provide improved means for varying the performance of an operation in the -manufacture of shoes in accordance with,

or under the control of, variation in the shoe part or parts upon which the operation is performed. Thus an embodiment of the invention, for example in a fastening inserting machine, may comprise means for cont-rolling the relative position of the gage and the fastening inserting instrumentalities of the machine arranged to vary the spacing of the row of fastenings from the edge of the work in accordance with a physical characteristic of the Work. The illustrated machine is provided with a double raceway which is shifted simultaneously with the gage by mechanism controlled by the thickness of the work to cause the row of nails to be spaced at a variable distance from the edge of the work, both the length of the nails and the distance of the row of nails from the edge of the work being thus cont-rolled by the thickness of the sole of the shoes operated on by the machine.

Since the illustrated machine is particularly designed for use in all-round nailing in the manufacture of nailed shoes, it is so arranged that the shorter nails which are inserted in the shank portion of the shoe are located nearer the edge than the longer nails which are inserted in the thicker forepart of the shoe and which it is desirable to have spaced further from the edge to permit the use of a so-called extension sole This application is a continuation in part of an application having Serial Yov 270,502, filed January 10, 1919 by George (ioddu and Fred L. Mackenzie upon which United States Letters Patent No. 1,399,765 were granted Dee. 1.3, 1921.

Although the invention will hereinatter be described as embodied in a machine for inserting loose nails. it is recognized that the use of the invention is not restricted thereto but that the invention in some of its aspects may ha e other applications including incorporation in machines oi other types than 'tastening inserting machines. Moreover, the illustrated mechanism may be materially moditied without departing trom the scope ot the invention as detined in the claims.

Other objects and Features ot the invention will appear as the description proceeds and will be pointed out in the appended claims. in the drawings,

Fig. 1 represents a fastening inserting machine oi? the type disclosed in said patent to illacltenzie No. .l.2t' 2.8;0, with the present invention embodied therein;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the race ways in section of the raceway shitting and part at the gage controlling mechanism of the machine of Fig. l;

l ig. 3 a perspective view wit-h parts broken away of certain pawl tipping mechanism of Fig. :2;

Fig. l is a P61'S1')0(fll\6 view of: portions of the race *ay shifting and gage shitting niachanism; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view ot the gage and some oil its associated parts.

The machine in which the invention is herein illustrated as embodied comprises column 2 which supports a head l upon the trout end of which are m iulnted fastening inserting instrumentalities including an awl 6 operative to penetrate and feed the worlz. Er gage 9 is carried on the under side ot the head adjacent to the point of insertion ot the 'astenine's and acts to determine the if the :tasteuings it'rou'i the edge of the no lileans are provided for controlling the inserting mechanism so as to cause it to insert telectively nails e'l ditierent lengths. in the iltust rated mnstructirm. such means is generallv ot the type disclosed in said patent to :lcenzi )To. jl.2ti52,tl2t). and tor convenience in compai the ma hine her discloted with that at said patent. re'l'crencc numerah-z will he used to do nate rimilar parts. F-llide 2%. upon w iich is mounted an actuator n the term oi' a double pawl 502 for shitting the raceway. is reciproated hv connections with a lever 1 2 to d pawl into and out oi engaeenu .it with one or the other of two shoulders fill-3 and Zl lt upon a. horizontal slide T-tl l. To prevent hrealc ,"t in care ol tlitt e strain. as might occur it the raceway should become ixuiitisu'l. lever 192 pl'OYlllQtl with two arm 1825 and H25. connected by a spring 18? suiticiently still to cause the lever to function inane; s

under normal conditions as a rigid member. but arranged to yield it any ot the parts operated thereby should become jammed. Arm 185 of lever 82 is provided with a segment 2% meshing with a rack fill-l mounted upon slide 250 so that oscillation of lever 18: causes reciprmration ot the double pawl .302. Lever 182 also carries a cam roll which enters a cam groove in cam 4:8 upon the shaft 20 of the machine. The connections between the slide iltl-t and the double raceway Bilt, which has two slots designed to receive relatively long and short nails rtaipcctively, comprise. as shown in the patent to Mackenzie ahove meutionml, oppositely threaded rods llthl and tilt) conucctml by an adjusting nut 51:3. the rod aos being pivotally connected to the lug Ill-t upon the side oi the double raceway. 'lhc rod llt) receives in an opening at one end an eccentric carried on the lower end of a rocl: shaft 318 mounted in a. hearing in the bracket 1472. said t'tlt'l l shalt having: t'ornu-d upon t upper end a pinion, 3% with which meshes segment rack 322 formed on the end of the reel: arm 3524- which is clamgu-d upon the upper end of the reel; shatt 326 also mounted in a bearing in the lll'itflit'l' QT. and carrying at its lower end a gear segment 28 which meshes with rack teeth 130 on the slide Eltl-l. The shitting movement of the slide Iltl-lis: sutlicient to turn the eccentric upon shaft 2118 around from one dead center to the other with respect to the rod flit) so that the raceway is positively shi't'ted and positively held in either o't its positions Pawl tipper 606, arranged to operate double pawl 502, comprises two arms 608, 610 which carry respectively the dogs 536, 538 and a circular body portion provided with a hub mounted to turn freely upon a shatt 614. The body portion of the tipper 606 is cut away below its hub to form a. segmental opening 616 through which projects a stop 618 carried by an arm (320 provided with a hub sleeved upon the hub of the pawl. tipper, said arm being given a tendeney to turn in a counter clockwise direc tion (Fig. 2) by a spring 622 coiled about the hub and hearing at one end against a pin G24: upon said arm 620, and at its other end being attached to a clamp collar (326 clamped upon the hub of the pawl tipper. The movement of: the arm 620 relative to the pawl tipper 606 is limited in the direction in which the spring tends to turn said arm by a stop 628 (Figs. 2 and 3) adjustable about the periphery of the circular body portion of the tipper.

The pawl tippcr is so arranged that it is normally in short nail position, being yieldingly maintained in this position by a spring 636 which is connected at one call to a screw or stud 63S upon bracket 279 by which the raceway shitting mechanism is carried, and having its other end bent down so that it enters a socket 640 in the outer face of a bell crank lever 642 fulcrumed upon a stud 644 and havin at its forward end a short rack 646 whic engages teeth 648 in the periphery of the circular body portion of the pawl tipper 606. Between the stud 644 and the pawl tipper 606 the arm of bell crank 642 is provided with an opening which receives a stud 650 servin as a stop for the vertical movement 0 said arm, the opening being larger in diameter than the stud 650 whereby movement of the arm sufficient to rock or permit the rock ing of the pawl tipper between its two pawl tipping positions cantake place.

The pawl tipper may be moved into its long nail position either by manual means or automatically in accordance with the de mands of the work. The means for effecting the movement of the pawl tipper automatically in accordance with changes in the thickness of the work are operated through connections with the horn 22 or other work support, said'connections comprising a twopart lever 464, 468 (Fig. 1) adapted to be put into operative position by a treadle op erated cam 476, as more fully described in United States Letters Patent to George Goddu No. 1,011,941, granted December 19,

1911, a toggle 168, 170 normally maintained in straightened position whereby the pressure of a spring 164 is transmitted to the horn 22 to clamp the work against the work abutment 266, and a rod 160 connected at its lower end to pawl carrying slide 162 and at its upper end to one end of a lever 652 (Fig. 4) fulcrumed upon a short shaft 654 in the machine frame, said lever having an arm 656 provided at its end with a rack segment 658 (see Fig. 3). Therack segment 658 meshes with the small rack segment or part of apinion 660 forming part of multiplying connections carried upon a shaft 662 journaled in the machine frame, the other part of said connections comprising a rack segment 664 formed upon an arc of a circle of a larger radius than the radius of curvature of the rack or pinion 660. The rack 664 meshes with a pinion 666 carried upon the inner end of the rock shaft 614 whereby said shaft is turned as the thickness of the work gaged between the horn 22 and the work abutment 266 varies. Formed integral with the shaft 614 is an enlargedportion 668 carrying a tooth or stop 670 adapted to engage the stop 618 upon the arm 620. Thus horn 22 1s operated to measure the work, the measurement being transmitted to rod 160 and lever 652 and being utilized to control the pos tion of tipper 606 and hence to control the fastening inserting and, as hereinafter ex plained, the position of gage 8. i

It will be noted that the connections from the horn 22 to the pawl tipper operating means are of a nature such that the pawl tipper operating means does not partake of the movement of the horn to permit the work to be fed but is moved only upon change in the thickness of the work engaged by the horn.

As already indicated, the connection between the pawl tipper or actuator controlling means and the horn is normally broken between the stop 670 on the shaft 614 and the stop 618 upon the arm 620. The broken connection between the pawl tipper and the horn permits the pawl tipper to be normally maintained in fixed position by the spring 636 regardless of changes in the thickness of the work being operated upon so long as the work does not exceed a predetern'iined nection between the pawl tipper and thehorn. The stop 618 is free to move away from the stop 628 upon the circular body portion of the pawl tipper 606 but the hub of the arm 620, which carries the stop 618, is connected to the hub of the pawl tipper 606 by the spring 622 which is put under increased tension as the stop 670 tends to move the stop 618 away from the stop 628. The pawl tipper 606 is thus caused to follow the movement of the stop 618 until it comes into its long nail position, or until its movcment is limited by the engagement of one side of the opening in the arm 642 with the stud 650. If the increase in thickness of the stock is greater than that required to effect this movement of the pawl tipper, the arm 620 will move out of engagement with the stop 628, the increased tension of the spring tending to hold the pawl tipper steady in its long nail position.

If it isdesired to shift the raceway manually, this may be done by depressing treadle 706, which operates through connections 692, 682, 680 (Figs. 1 and 2) to rock lever 642 and thus to shift the pawl tipper, as more fully explained in the Mackenzie Patent No. 1,262,820.

The illustrated machine is provided with an edge gage automatically shiftable in accordance with the shifting of the raceway, so as to cause the insertion of short nails comparatively near the edge of the work, as in the shank of a shoe, and long nails further from the edge of the work, as in the forepart of a shoe provided with a half sole or tap in addition to its outsole, as will i ment on a bracket 800 carried by the machine frame is a gage member or slide 802 having a spring tltli connected thereto and tending to move the gage rearwardly. A set screw Silt; disposed to engage a. pin e08 depending from the slide :uljustably limits the movement of the gage in such direction.

To the end that the gage may be auto matically moved from one gaging position to another, the slide bar 30 i is extended bc yond the rack 2330 as indicated at 809 and has secured in its end a stud 810 grooved to receive the hooked end of a link 812 joined to the upper end of a lever 8H fulcrumed at 816 to an upwardly extending portion hi8 of the ln'acket 800. The lever trll-flis provided at its lower end with teeth meshing with a pinion $20 on a shaft iournaltal in the bracket d and formed with an eccentric portion Silt engaging :1 lug 826 on the gage slide and operable upon angular movement of the shaft 852'" to move the gage forwardly in opposition to the spring Sill. A spring 828 connected at one end to a pin 30 on the link 812 and at its other end to the pin 832 retains the link H12 in engagement with the stud. 810 but permits it to be readily detached from the stud when desired. The arrangement of the above described parts is such that when the bar 30% is moved in a direction to shift the raceway to short nail position, the extension 809 of the bar, through its connections with the gage, moves it forwardly against the resistance of the spring 804. lVhen, on the other hand, the bar 30% is moved in the opposite direction so as to eii'ect movement of the raceway to a. position to deliver long nails, the shaft 822 is rotated to withdraw its cccentric portion whereupon the gage is moved back by the spring.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. A shoe machine having means for operating about the periphery of a sole, and mechanism for relatively moving the operating means and the work to vary the position upon the sole at which the operation is performed, said means being controlled by a variation in a characteristic of the peripheral portion of the sole operated upon.

2. A shoe machine having means for ope ating about the periphery of a sole and means controlled by a variation in a dimcnsion of the sole for varying the position laterally of the sole at which the operation is performed.

3. A shoe machine having means for operating upon a sole, means for measuring the thickness of the sole and mechanism controlled by the measuring means for varying the position laterally of the sole at which the operation performed.

at. A shoe machine having means for opcrating upon soles, and means for varying the position laterally of the soles at which the operation is performed controlled by the thickness of the soles.

5. A shoe n'iachine having, in combination, a pair of members between which soles may be gripped and fed, means for operating on the soles, means for feeding the soles between said menlbers to the op erating means, and means controlled by the extent of relative displacement of said members etteeted by variation in the thickness of the soles to vary the position at which the operation is performed upon the soles.

ll. Jr shoe machine having an edge gage, and means for shifting the gage toward or from the edge of the work controlled by the thickness of the work.

7. A shoe machine having an edge ga i c, means for measuring the thickness of the sole of a shoe, and means for shifting the gage toward or from the edge of the sole controlled by the thickness of the sole.

8. A shoe machine having a. gage, nieans for measuring the work, and means for shifting the gage controlled by said measuring means, and operating to shift the gage from one position to another according as the thickness of the work is greater or less than a predetermined critical thickness.

9. A shoe machine having means for op erating upon shoe parts, a gage arraiunul to position the shoe parts with respect to the Operating means, and mechanism controlled by a characteristic of the shoe part operated upon for *arying the relative position of the gage and the operating means in accordance with variations of said characteristic in an individual piece of work, thereby varying the location at which the operation is performed on different parts ot' said piece of work.

10. A shoe machine having, in cinnbination, means for operating upon a. piece of work, a gage, and. means controlled b a variation in a characteristic of the piece of work for :ausing relative movement of the operating means and the gage arranged automatically to vary the distance from the edge of the piece of work at which the operation is performed on (lllltl'cl'li parts of the same piece of work in {lt'CUI'tltll'ltt' with a variation in said cliaractcristic.

11. A shoe machine having, in combination, means for operating upon work. a gage arranged for engagement with the work operated upon, and means controlled by the thickness of the work for causing relative movement of the opcri'iting means and the gage automatically to vary the distance from the edge of the work at which the operation is performed.

12. A machine for performing an opera tion adjacent to the periplnery ot' a piece of work having, in combination, an edge gage,

and means controllel by the thickness of the work for controlling the position of the edge gage transversely of the work.

. 13. A machine for performing an opera.

tion adjacent to the periphery of a piece of Work having, in combination, an edge gage, means for measuring the'work, and means controlled by the measuring means for shifting the edge gage transversely of the work.

14. A machine for operating upon shoe parts having, in combination, means for feeding the work to the operating means, an edge gage, and means controlled by a characteristic of the shoe part operated upon for controlling the relative position of the edge gage and the feeding means transversely of the work. i

15. A machine for operating upon shoe parts having, in combination, means for performing an operation about the peripheries of shoe parts, means for feeding the shoe parts to the operating means, a gage, means for measuring the shoe parts, and means controlled by the measuring means for changing the relative position of the gage and the operating means.

16. A machine for operating uponshoc parts having, in combination, means for feeding the work to the operating means, an edge gage, a-pair of relatively movable members between which the work is fed, and means. for shifting the edge gagecontrolled by the relative position of said members. i

17. A shoe machine having, in combination, a gage formed to present a bearing surface for engagement with the edge of the work to determine the position at which an operation is performed upon the work, a member shiftable from one position to another under the control of the work ac cording as the thickness of the work is greater or less than a predetermined critical thickness, and means operated by said member to move the gage from one gaging position to another according as the thickness of the Work is greater or less than said critical thickness.

18. A shoe machine having, in combina' tion, a gage formed to present a bearing i one gaging position to another according as the thickness of the work is greater or less than said critical thickness.

119, A fastening inse g mach ne. havprogressively to another according as the thickness of the work is greater or less than a certain critical thickness, and connections from the slide to the gage operative to shift the gage from one gaging position to another according as the thickness of the work is greater or less than said critical thickness.

20. A machine for use in manufacturing shoes comprising, in combination, work-. feedlng means, means co-operating therewith to measure variation in a characteristic of Work fed thereby, anj instrumentah ity to operate on the work, said instrumentality and the work being relatively movable laterally in a rectilinear path, and a connection responsive to the measurement so made to control the relative lateral move-., ments of the work and said instrumentality. 21. A machine for use in the manufacture of shoes comprising, in combination, means to operate on a piece of stock, and means responsive to variation in a characteristic of the stock to control the location of the region operated upon, said controlling means being adjustable to change the amount of variation in the location of said region caused by a given variation in the stock.

22. A machine of the class described having, in combination, fastening inserting means, and means for varying relatively to a characteristic feature of the work the position at which fastenings are inserted in the Work controlled by the thickness of the work.

23. A machine of the class described having, in combination, fastening inserting means, and means for varying the distance from the edge of the work at which fastenings are inserted controlled by a dimension of the work.

24. Ina fastening inserting machine ar ranged to insert fastenings of. varying character and having means for changing the character of fastenings inserted, a gage operable to position the work relatively to the fastening inserting mechanism by engagement with the edge of the Work, and means controlled by a characteristic of the Work for moving the gage to different operative positions. I

25. In a fastening inserting machine arranged to insert fastenings of varying character and having means for changing the character of fastenings inserted, a gage operable to position the work. relatively to the fastening inserting mechanisim by engagement with the edge of the Work, means to measure the work, and means controlled by the measuring means for moving the gage to different operative positions.

26. A fastening inserting machine having, in combination, means for inserting fastenings of any one of a plurality of dif ferent kinds, mechanism controlled by a characteristic of the work for determining which kind of fastening shall be inserted, a gage for positioning the work with respect to the fastening inserting means, and gage controlling means, controlled by said mechanism, for varying the position of the work and hence of the fastenings inserted in accordance with the kind of fastenings inserted.

27. A fastening inserting machine having, in combination, fastening inserting mechanism, a plurality of sources of fastening supply, means for inserting fastenings from one or another of said sources of supply controlled by a characteristic of the work, a gage, and means controlled by a characteristic of the work for shifting the gage according as the fastenings are inserted from one or another of said sources of supply.

28. A fastening inserting machine having, in combination, fastening inserting mechanism, a plurality of sources of fastening supply arranged to supply fastenings of different characteristics, means for inserting fastenings from one or another of said sources of supply controlled by a di' mension of the work, a gage, and means controlled by said dimension of the work for shifting the gage so as to vary the position of the fastenings according as they are taken from one or another of said sources of supply.

29. In a machine of the class described, fastening inserting mechanism constructed and arranged to insert fastenings of varying character, a ga e for positioning the work relatively to the fastening insertin mechanism by engagement with the edge of the work, and means controlled by a characteristic of the work for moving the gage from one gaging position to another and for changing the character of fastenings inserted by said mechanism.

30. In a machine of the class described, fastening inserting mechanism constructed and arranged to insert fastenings of varying character, controlling means for the fastening inserting mechanism operable to cause a change in the character of the fastenings inserted by said mechanism, a gage for positioning the work relatively to the fastening inserting mechanism by engagement with the edge of the work, and means controlled by a characteristic of the work for effecting movement of the gage from one gaging position to "another.

31. In a machine of the class described, fastening inserting mechanism co struch-d and arranged to insert fastenings of vary ing character, controlling means for the fastening inserting mechanism operable to cause a change in the character of the fastenings inserted by said mechanism under the control of a dimension of the work, a. gage for positioning the work relatively to the fastening inserting mechanism by engagement with the edge of the work, and means controlled by a dimension of the work for effecting movement of the gage from one gaging position to another.

32. In a machine of the class described, fastening inserting mechanism constructed and arranged to insert fastcnings of varying character, means for feeding the work relatively to the fastening inserting mechanism to cause the insertion of a row of fastenings in the work, means controlled by a characteristic of the work for changing the character of fastenings inserted by the fastening inserting mechanism, a gage arranged for engagement with the edge of the work to determine the spacing of the fastenings from the edge of the work, and means operated by the fastening changing means for shifting the gage so as to change the spacing of the row of fastenings from the edge of the work.

33. A fastening inserting machine haying, in combination nail inserting mcchae nism, means for supplying thereto alternativcly nails of different lengths, means controlled by the thickness of the work for controlling the nail supplying means to cause the presentation in fastening inserting position of nails of a length appropriate to tie work, a gage, and means controlled by the thickness of the work to vary the posit-ion at which the nails are inserted in accordance with the thickness of the work.

34. A fastening inserting machine having, in combination, means for inserting long or short nails, means controlled by the thickness of the work for insuring the insertion of short nails in. such portions of the work as are of less than a certain critical thickness and the insertion of long nails in such parts of the work as are of greater than that critical thickness, an edge gage, and means controlled by the thickness of the work for shifting the gage to cause the insertion of short nails at one distanre from the edge of the work and the insertion of the long nails at a different distance from the edge of the work.

35. A fastening inserting machine having, in combination, two raceways con-- structed respectively to deliver nails having different characteristics, means for bringing the appropriate raceway into nail delivering position controlled by a characteristic of the Hit! is greater or less than a predetermined critical thickness, and means operated by 15 said member to move the gage from one gaging position to another according as the thickness of work is greater or less than said critical thickness, constructed and arranged to hold the gage in Whichever gaging posi- 20 tion it may occupy.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification.

GEORGE GODDU. FRED L. MACKENZIE. 

